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The bondage in sin that was foreshadowed by Israel’s season in bondage in Egypt during their early years as a people is in some sense a bondage incurred by not knowing any better. But a falling back into simialr bondage after having once been liberated from it is an even more serious and complicated bondage, because it is entered into by a more conscious and informed choice.
This condition too was foreshadowed in Israel’s history by her exile in Babylon. God informed Israel through their prophets that they were brought out of bondage to Egypt DESPITE their conduct, not because they deserved to be delivered. (Psalm 106 v.6,7,8) God was responding more to the intercessions of Moses and Aaron than He was to any uprightness in His people. Moses reminded God that the nations would conclude that God was incapable of protecting His own people if he allowed them to be destroyed.
It is the same with those of us who have come to faith in our Messiah. It was not because of what God saw in us, but despite it that deliverance was brought to our lives. We experienced a new beginning even as Israel did at Passover and would go on to celebrate it for centuries to come in what became the first month of their calendar year, signifying that this was the time when life truly began for them. So if we as new creatures choose to return to the sin from which we were delivered, like a dog to its vomit as Peter says (2 Peter 2 v.2) quoting Proverbs (Proverbs 26 v.11), we are tying a more complex knot than the one that originally bound us. Consider Jesus's words in Luke Chapter 11 verses 24 through 26 about the demon that returned to a man with seven more wicked demons after having once been cast out of that man. The "last condition was worse than the first."
After all, so many believers pray each day in the Lord’s Prayer to be delivered from the evil one, after having prayed for their daily bread which includes healing, ( since healing, Jesus told us, is the children’s bread. ) Early disciples prayed this prayer three times daily. They knew that deliverance and healing had to be maintained. So forgiveness, healing, deliverance, preservation and protection (all ingredients of salvation) are all covered in that mighty prayer when it proceeds from the heart, and not as mindless repetition.
It’s not that no exiles ever returned from Babylon to Israel, (a minority did) and it's not that someone recaptured by the same besetting sin can’t be liberated again, though it becomes increasingly more difficult and less likely. “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged up our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof, for there they that carried us away captive required of us a song…….how shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” (Psalm 137 v.1-4) It can be done but the harps have to hack their way and be hacked out of the tangled willows!
Consider that when Israel passed miraculously through the Red Sea they had extra incentive in that Pharaoh and his army of chariots were chasing them in hot pursuit. But when Joshua entered the Promised Land he was led in, and the people followed the priests trustingly into the flooding Jordan River. The priests, bearing the ark of the covenant, “took their stand” planting their feet firmly in the riverbed. Nobody returning from a second bondage is as likely to be chased back as led back, step by trusting step, behind faithful leadership and shepherds skilled in pursuing strays.
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